Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences

Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences

Samuels, Robert

Birkhauser

06/2019

143

Mole

Inglês

9783319891163

15 a 20 dias

This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Damasio's Error: The Politics of Biological Determinism after Freud.- Chapter 3. The Backlash Politics of Evolutionary Psychology: Pinker's Blank Slate.- Chapter 4. Behavioral Economics: Nudge and Technocratic Liberalism.- Chapter 5. The Brain Sciences Against the Welfare State.- Chapter 6. Drugging Discontent: Psychoanalysis, Drives and the Governmental University Medical Pharmaceutical Complex (GUMP).- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
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